In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific enquiry and new technologies shape aesthetic and cultural values offers groundbreaking guidelines for art education in an era of emerging new media. This is the first book concerned with educating artists for the post-digital age, propelling artists into unknown territory.
A culturally diverse range of art educators focus on teaching their students to create artworks that explore the complex balance between cultural pride and global awareness. They demonstrate how the dynamic interplay between digital, biological, and cultural systems calls for alternative pedagogical strategies that encourage student-centered, self-regulated, participatory, interactive, and immersive learning. Educating Artists for the Future charts the diaphanous boundaries between art, science, technology, and culture that are reshaping art education.
Chapter titles
Chapter 1: 'Learning at the Intersection of Art, Science, Technology and Culture' - Page 11
Mel Alexenberg
Chapter 2: 'Beyond the Digital: Preparing Artists to Work at the Frontiers of Technoculture' - Page 29
Stephen Wilson
Chapter 3: 'Pixels and Particles: The Path to Syncretism' - Page 47
Roy Ascott
Chapter 4: 'Sustaining Creativity and Losing the Wild' - Page 61
Carol Gigliotti
Chapter 5: 'Making Space for the Artist' - Page 75
Mark Amerika
Chapter 6: 'Unthinkable Complexity: Art Education in Networked Times' - Page 85
Robert Sweeny
Chapter 7: 'Art/Science & Education' - Page 103
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss
Chapter 8: 'Learning, Education, and the Arts in a Digital World' - Page 115
Ron Burnett
Chapter 9: 'Afference and Efference: Encouraging Social Impact through Art and Science Education' - Page 127
Jill Scott
Chapter 10: 'Expressing with Grey Cells: Indian Perspectives on New Media Arts' - Page 141
Vinod Vidwans
Chapter 11: 'New Media Art as Embodiment of Tao'
Wengao Huang
Chapter 12: 'Between Hyper-Images and Aniconism: New Perspectives on Islamic Art in the Education of Artists' - Page 155
Ismailm Ozgur Soganci
Chapter 13: 'Touching Light: Post-Traditional Immersion in Interactive Artistic Environments' - Page 169
Diane Gromala
Chapter 14: 'Media Golem: Between Prague and ZKM' - Page 193
Michael Bielicky
Chapter 15: 'Life Transformation - Art Mutation' - Page 203
Eduardo Kac
Chapter 16: 'Learning Through the Re-embodiment of the Digital Self' - 217
Yacov Sharir
Chapter 17: 'My Journey: From Physics to Graphic Design to User/Interface/Information-Visualization Design' - Page 229
Aaron Marcus
Chapter 18: 'Entwined Histories: Reflections on Teaching Art, Science, and Technological Media' - Page 245
Edward A. Shanken
Chapter 19: 'A Generative Emergent Approach to Graduate Education' - Page 253
Bill Seaman
Chapter 20: 'Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Images in a Digital Age' - Page 271
Shlomo Lee Abrahmov
Chapter 21: 'The Creative Spirit in the Age of Digital Technologies: Seven Tactical Exercises' - Page 291
Lucia Leao
Chapter 22: 'From Awesome Immersion to Hollistic Integration' - Page 305
Mel Alexenberg
Reviews
'Mel Alexenberg, a very sophisticated artist and scholar of much experience in the complex playing field of art-science-technology, addresses the rarely asked question: How does the ‘media magic’ communicate content?' – Otto Piene, Professor Emeritus and Director, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
'A rare find. Editor Mel Alexenberg has done a remarkable job of bringing together outstanding artist/educators who are grappling with issues related to technology, ecology, creativity, agency, identity and community. […] readers reviewing this book will feel a profound sense of collectivity knowing we are at the edge of transforming the world in which we live.' – Rita L. Irwin
'The links between Science and Art, severed so long ago, have not only reunited into a collective but are mutating into new and exciting dimensions. For Artists/Teachers/Researchers, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of post digital media, this is the perfect companion for navigation. You are guaranteed to find inspiration by the bucket-load whether you are an artist, designer, tutor, or student of Multimedia and the Arts.' – Jade Ashcroft, Enlightening Times
'Once more, intense questions and complex reasoning, which [...] begin to feel mind-broadening and powerful [....] This is a creative book for creative thinkers – particularly those with a passion for technological advances [....] This book embodies a perhaps very human urge to learn across disciplines, and explore the border conflicts of their interface.' – Olivia Sagan, ESCalate
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